My Grandmother's Matchbook Collection

Shadow box with 12 laser decals on porcelain tiles (16 x 16 in.)

detail - tile with laser decal (3 x 2 1/4 in.)

 

Shadow box with glass and resin encapsulations (11 x 9 in.)

 

Mixed media: oil and sandpaper on canvas board  (23 x 19 1/2 in.)

Max Loew's Viennese Lantern

Mixed media: oil, glass fragments and encapsulated matches (17 x 14 in.)

 

detail: resin encapsulated matches from Max Loew's Viennese Lantern

 

The Viennese Lantern Waltz (beginning)

by Red Nichols and His Penny Symphony (1955)

Starlite Roof, oil on canvas board, 13 x 9 in.

 

Porcelain vase with laser decals

 

"Yitgadol" (from the Mourner's Kaddish) - oil on glass (14 x 6 in.)

 

slide show of matchbooks (to be projected as large as possible)

An mp3 recording of a music box playing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" plays continuously. To hear hear a short excerpt, please click on the link.

  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Music Box

 

Matchbook Producers ca. 1940's (to be produced as hanging scrims 10 ft. x 4 ft.)

 

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